University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health Evaluating Aberdeen Site for New Medical Campus

The Board of Directors of UM Upper Chesapeake Health (UM UCH) is actively evaluating a site in Aberdeen for the development of a new medical campus as the health system plans to move services from its current UM Harford Memorial Hospital location. The City of Aberdeen has been supportive of the health system’s plans. The evaluation of the Aberdeen site indicates that we can bring a modern new medical campus to the citizens of northeast Maryland with few changes from the original plan, can occur within a reasonable timeframe and is less expensive to build compared to other sites under consideration. The Aberdeen site offers our patients and their family members’ access to existing public transportation, nearby retail and pharmacies. Finalizing the site selection will enable us to focus fully on the implementation of our community-centric strategy that extends care beyond traditional hospital walls to place outpatient services most used by the community closer to where they live. The Board is optimistic about reaching a final site selection in the coming weeks. The development of the medical campus is dependent on regulatory approval by the state of Maryland.

“Although we had planned to develop our property in Havre de Grace, we now know that building the new campus on the Aberdeen site will allow us to achieve our original goals including our broader vision to increase access to care, coordinate efforts between hospital care providers and community care providers, and develop new models of care delivery supported by state-of-the-art technology. We have many effective and exciting programs that we have started and more that we will develop, but the most important component of our vision is our commitment to our community to create the healthiest community in Maryland,” said Lyle Sheldon, President and Chief Executive Officer, UM UCH.

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Why? With the republican healthcare model of “if you’re sick just die”, why put the money into prolonging the inevitable? What we really need is a coal fired power plant or maybe an asbestos manufacturing facility.

Indeed you did see Come on Now and Reality of It and their many aliases harass others by making assinine comments. Then you saw others deal with the two because they are tired of their bullying of posters on this site.

I hear they’re planning to put in a helipad at the site (Merritt building by Target). With all the traffic congestion,the immediate neighborhood(s), and loss in tax revenue, I’d image Aberdeen residents would be none-to-thrilled.

Property taxes are currently paid on the property. Not the case once 34 acres of commercially zoned property becomes occupied by a non-profit/ hospital. Just because it’s vacant, doesn’t mean no revenue is generated. That’s how taxes work.

Follow the money on this one. That developer hoped to cash in on APG expansion which did not happen. This is a way to unload a bad investment. If it happens University of Maryland better get a deal on it.

Can anyone remember the old Fallston hospital? It seems to me that the Upper Chesapeake campus ended up being a successful upgrade to local healthcare when they moved and could expand the access to both general and specialty care.

Given the geography of HdG, and potential community imposed limitations, it sounds like they were faced again with an older facility and no margin for growth. Access to any area of Aberdeen from both I-95 and US-40 should support better care for those along the major corridor from Edgewood up into Cecil county.